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The Housemans of Nidderdale
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 1913 - 1921 (7 years) Submit Photo / Document
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| 1 | 1913 | - 1913—1913: Third Irish Home Rule Bill rejected by House of Lords - threat of civil war in Ireland -
formation of Ulster Volunteers to oppose Home Rule
- 1913—1913: Suffragette demonstrations in London - Mrs Pankhurst imprisoned
- 1913—1913: Trade Union Act in Britain establishes the right to use Union funds for political
purposes
- 1913—1913: Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield
- 1913—1913: Geiger invents his counter to measure radioactivity
- 4 June 1913—4 June 1913: Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the
Epsom Derby and dies
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| 2 | 1914 | - 1914—1914: Irish Home Rule Act provides for a separate Parliament in Ireland; the position of Ulster
to be decided after the War
- 1914—1914: Chaplin and De Mille make their first films
- 28 June 1914—28 June 1914: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
- 4 August 1914—4 August 1914: Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason
- 5 August 1914—5 August 1914: British cableship Telconia cut through all five of Germany's undersea telegraph
links to the outside world
- 15 August 1914—15 August 1914: Panama Canal opened, the Canal cement boat 'Ancon' making the first official
transit (plans for a grand opening were cancelled due to the start of WW1)
- October 1914—October 1914: Battle of Ypres - beginning of trench warfare on western front
- 27 November 1914—27 November 1914: First policewoman goes on duty in Britain
- 16 December 1914—16 December 1914: German battleships bombard Hartlepool and Scarborough
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| 3 | 1915 | - 1915—1915: Junkers construct first fighter aeroplane
- 1915—1915: First automatic telephone exchange in Britain
- 19 January 1915—19 January 1915: First Zeppelin air raid on England, over East Anglia - four killed
- February 1915—February 1915: Submarine blockade of Britain starts
- April 1915—April 1915: Second Battle of Ypres - poison gas used for first time
- 25 April 1915—25 April 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
- 7 May 1915—7 May 1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland - 1,198 died
- 16 May 1915—16 May 1915: First meeting of a British WI (Women's Institute) took place in Llanfairpwll
(aka Llanfair PG), Anglesey
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| 4 | 1916 | - 1916—1916: Compulsory military service introduced in Britain
- February 1916—February 1916: Battle of Verdun - appalling losses on both sides, stalemate continues
- 24 April 1916—24 April 1916: Easter Rising in Ireland - after the leaders are executed, public opinion backs
independence
- 21 May 1916—21 May 1916: First use of Daylight Saving Time in UK
- 31 May 1916—31 May 1916: Battle of Jutland - only major naval battle between the British and
German fleets
- 5 June 1916—5 June 1916: Sinking of HMS Hampshire and death of Kitchener
- 3 August 1916—3 August 1916: Sir Roger Casement hanged at Pentonville Prison for treason
- 15 September 1916—15 September 1916: First use of tanks in battle, but of limited effect (Battle of the Somme 1 July to 18 Nov: over 1 million casualties)
- 7 December 1916—7 December 1916: Lloyd-George becomes British Prime Minister of the coalition government
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| 5 | 1917 | - 1917—1917: Battle of Cambrai - first use of massed tanks, but effect more psychological than actual
- 1917—1917: Ministry of Labour is established in Britain
- February 1917—February 1917: February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates
- 16 April 1917—16 April 1917: Lenin returns to Russia after exile
- 17 April 1917—17 April 1917: USA declares war on Germany
- 26 May 1917—26 May 1917: George V changes surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (Royal
proclamation on 17 July)
- July 1917—July 1917: Battle of Passchendaele - little gained by either side (Jul-Nov)
- 7 November 1917—7 November 1917: 'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government;
Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
- 6 December 1917—6 December 1917: Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion, one of the world's largest artificial non-nuclear
explosions to date: a ship loaded with wartime explosives blew up after a collision,
obliterating buildings and structures within two square kilometres of the explosion
- 9 December 1917—9 December 1917: British forces capture Jerusalem
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| 6 | 1918 | - 1918—1918: Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)
- 1918—1918: War of Independence in Ireland
- 18 January 1918—18 January 1918: Bentley Motors founded
- 8 March 1918—8 March 1918: Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic
- July 1918—July 1918: Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive in WW1 (Jul-Aug)
- 1 October 1918—1 October 1918: Arab forces under Lawrence of Arabia capture Damascus
- 11 November 1918—11 November 1918: Armistice signed
- December 1918—December 1918: First woman elected to House of Commons, Countess Markiewicz as a Sinn Fein
member refused to take her seat
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| 7 | 1919 | - 1919—1919: Britain adopts a 48-hour working week
- 1919—1919: Sir Ernest Rutherford publishes account of splitting the atom
- 15 June 1919—15 June 1919: Alcock and Brown complete first nonstop flight across the Atlantic
- 28 June 1919—28 June 1919: Treaty of Versailles signed
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| 8 | 1920 | - 1920—1920: Regular cross-channel air service starts
- 1920—1920: Marconi opens a radio broadcasting station in Britain
- 1920—1920: Thompson patents his machine gun (Tommy gun)
- February 1920—February 1920: First roadside petrol filling station in UK - opened by the Automobile Association
at Aldermaston on the Bath Road
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| 9 | 1921 | - 1921—1921: Railway Act in Britain amalgamates companies - only four remained
- 1921—1921: Insulin discovery announced
- 1921—1921: First birth control clinic
- 19 June 1921—19 June 1921: Census: Population - England and Wales: 37.9 Million; Scotland: 4.9 Million; N Ireland: 1.25 Million
- 6 December 1921—6 December 1921: Anglo-Irish Treaty signed in London, leading to the formation of the Irish Free
State and Northern Ireland
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